#90: Finding Your Agency on Pre-assigned Tasks

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Timemanagement, Productivity, Organization, Planning, Achievement, Education, Worklifebalance, Business, Michaelhyatt, Focus, Goals

4.6 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Week after week, you find yourself working on projects you dread. You don’t understand why they’re important. You’re not good at them. But if your boss is dictating your to-do list, it’s not as if you have a choice, right? You have more agency than you think. In this episode, we’ll dive into four strategies you can practice to start doing more work you enjoy and less work you dread. When you do, your company will benefit—and your career will, too. In this episode, you’ll discover— An insightful tool for identifying the work you love How to leverage your thinking to change your experience An often overlooked reason you might not be enjoying your work When—and how—to approach your boss Giveaways that it’s time to look for work elsewhere See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, what do you think is worse? Living in constant reaction mode or missing the goals that
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1:00.5	Blake, again, I've said those many times.
1:05.8	I wish people could see what's going on right now because you're literally balancing.
1:09.3	I don't even actually know what you have on your head right now.
1:10.9	Our producer Nick thought it was a laptop.
1:11.6	It's not.
1:19.8	It's a metaphor is what it is, Courtney, because aren't we all sometimes just feel like we have to balance so much on our heads?
1:23.3	Maybe.
1:25.0	At any moment, it could topple.
1:26.8	Yeah, yeah.
1:27.7	No, I'm just kidding. I just thought it could topple. Yeah, yeah. No, I'm just kidding.
1:28.5	I just thought it'd be funny.
1:39.5	Welcome to another episode of Focus on This, the most productive podcast on the Internet,
1:45.2	so you can banish distractions, get the right stuff done, and finally start loving Mondays.
1:51.1	I'm Verbs here with Courtney Baker and Blake Stratton. Happy Monday to you both.
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